Publications
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100 Years of Prandtl's Wedge
(2018)
The biggest problem for a shallow foundation, just as for any other type of foundation, is a failure due to an overestimation of the bearing capacity. This means that the correct prediction of the bearing capacity of the ...
3D Printing with Biomaterials - Towards a Sustainable and Circular Economy
(2015)
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing, manufacturing a product layer by layer, offers large design freedom and faster product development cycles, as well as low startup cost of production, on-demand production and local ...
A Century of Science Publishing - A Collection of Essays
(2001)
Leading publishers and observers of the science publishing scene comment in essay form on key developments over the past century. The scale of the global research effort and its industrial organisation have resulted in ...
Challenging the Chain - Governing the Automated Exchange and Processing of Business Information
(2015)
What is digital business reporting? Why do we need it? And how can we improve it? This book aims to address these questions by illustrating the rise of system-to-system information exchange and the opportunities for improving ...
Applications of Secure Multiparty Computation
(2015)
We generate and gather a lot of data about ourselves and others, some of it highly confidential. The collection, storage and use of this data is strictly regulated by laws, but restricting the use of data often limits the ...
CleanEra – A Collection of Research Projects for Sustainable Aviation
(2015)
The CleanEra project was initiated with the goal of developing revolutionary ideas for civil aviation. These ideas were to offer solutions which would limit and reduce some of the negative aspects of aviation, namely: ...
Music Learning with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
(2015)
"Massive Open Online Courses, known as MOOCs, have arisen as the logical consequence of marrying long-distance education with the web and social media. MOOCs were confidently predicted by advanced thinkers decades ago. ...
Quality in Design and Execution of Engineering Practice
(2013)
Quality in Design and Execution of Engineering Practice is about quality management focused at fitness for purpose, rather than compliance with specifications, rules and regulations. The focus on getting execution in line ...
Public Administration in an Information Age - A Handbook
(1998)
"This book is a joint effort of researchers who have been involved in research-projects and programmes that have been trying to chart and reflect upon the implications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) ...
Physics before and after Einstein
(2005)
It is now a century ago that one of the icons of modern physics published some of the most influential scientific papers of all times. With his work on relativity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein has altered the field ...
Solar Power to the People
(2018)
You read about it every day: How can we create a sustainable, reliable and affordable energy supply? Does a local water supply play a role in this? Why don’t we drive hydrogen cars that are powered by the sun and rain? The ...
Our Car as Power Plant
(2014)
Fuel cell cars can provide more efficient and cleaner transportation. However, we use our cars for transportation only 5% of the time. When parked, the fuel cell in the car can produce electricity from hydrogen, which is ...
A Unifying Theory of Evolution Generated by Means of Information Modelling
(2016)
"Stringent ways of thinking, ‘conceptual frameworks’, are necessary in science. The drawback is that the associated assumptions, concepts, rules and practice may become so deeply entrenched that they turn into tacit knowledge ...
Welcome to the Green Village
(2013)
A sustainable world can only be achieved by an open collaboration between science, business and the public. That is why we create the Green Village: an innovative, lively, interactive & challenging environment where ...
The Delft Prototype Laboratory
(2016)
The Prototype Laboratory initiated and maintained by the Chair of Product Development at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, has set an example in architectural education for hands-on ‘learning-by-making’ for students. ...
The Delft Sand, Clay and Rock Cutting Model
(2014)
Sand, clay and rock have to be excavated for a variety of purposes, such as dredging, trenching, mining (including deep sea mining), drilling, tunnel boring and many other applications. Many excavations take place on dry ...
Componentontwerpen en Productontwikkelen
(2016)
Vanuit de ‘design & build’ ervaringen in zijn eigen bedrijf in Delft heeft Mick Eekhout een geactualiseerde versie geschreven van het boek over de methodologie die hij gebruikt als ontwerper van draagconstructies en ...
Development and Realisation of the Concept House ‘Delft’ Prototype - An Example of a Collaborative Concept Development for Energy Positive Apartments
(2016)
The Delft Prototype is a single apartment from a not yet realized Concept House Urban Villa, which consists of 16 apartments on 4 floors. Both the urban villa and the prototype demonstrate the characteristics of high level ...
Evidence-Based Health Informatics - Promoting Safety and Efficiency through Scientific Methods and Ethical Policy
(2016)
"Health IT is a major field of investment in support of healthcare delivery, but patients and professionals tend to have systems imposed upon them by organizational policy or as a result of even higher policy decision. ...
Free Form Technology from Delft
(2016)
The success of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed and engineered by Frank O. Gehry and inaugurated in 1997, opened the eyes of the world to the plastic possibilities of Free Form Design. That is, on the side of ...
A Friendly Rest Room: Developing Toilets of the Future for Disabled and Elderly People
(2011)
"This book addresses the topic of toilet design, but instead of focusing on the typical able bodied user, it takes the various needs and limited abilities of older and/or disabled people as its starting point (human centered ...
The Fluid Dynamic Basis for Actuator Disc and Rotor Theories
(2018)
The first rotor performance predictions were published by Joukowsky exactly 100 years ago. Although a century of research has expanded the knowledge of rotor aerodynamics enormously, and modern computer power and measurement ...
Exploring the Visual Landscape - Advances in Physiognomic Landscape Research in the Netherlands
(2011)
Exploring the Visual Landscape is about the combination of landscape research and planning, visual perception and Geographic Information Science. It showcases possible ways of getting a grip on themes like: landscape ...
The House as a Product
(2016)
Industrialized housing has been a common phenomenon in the building industry since the industrial revolution; the casting of iron components enabled Victorian iron casters to prefabricate entire buildings and to export ...
Gieten en Kneden - Primaire Technieken voor het Vormgeven van Bouwelementen
(2016)
Dit boek is het werk van Jan van der Woord, die een speciale belangstelling had voor gieten en kneden in de jaren dat hij universitair hoofddocent was bij de leerstoel Productontwikkeling aan de Faculteit Bouwkunde TU ...
De keten uitgedaagd - Besturen en verantwoorden in een wereld vol ICT
(2014)
Verantwoording is een maatschappelijk vraagstuk van de eerste orde, maar ook een bron van groeiende zorg en irritatie voor veel organisaties. In 2004 startten het ministerie van Financiën en het ministerie van Justitie een ...
Lord of the Wings - The Making of Free Form Architecture
(2016)
Buildings are neither conceived nor realized by architects in a vacuum; the architect forms part of a larger team of builders, craftsmen, engineers and other experts who join forces to bring together their diverse fields ...
Lectures on Innovation in Building Technology - Lecture Articles for Students of Architecture Delft 1992-2015 | Nottingham 2005-2011
(2016)
This book is a collection of articles written in recent years and used in lectures for students at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft and at Nottingham University. The lectures and articles are based on a mixture of ...
The Origin and the Evolution of Firms
(2012)
The firms and markets of today's complex socio-economic system developed in a spontaneous process termed evolution, in just the same way as the universe, the solar system, the Earth and all that lives upon it. Darwin's ...